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post #1 of 21
5/14/04 at 12:28pm
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I have questions and observations and disappointments
anyone want to discuss it with me? No one around here but me likes Anne Rice...
post #2 of 21
5/14/04 at 5:47pm
I read it a while ago, but I'm game. It was a good book!
post #3 of 21
5/14/04 at 9:23pm
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alright let's rock :)

Ok I have read them all including Vittorio. Lestat though without him the series doesn't exsist has NEVER been my favourite. Did she change her writing style? Because by the third chapter I was darn near in love with Lestat.
Or did she just write Quinn's depiction that good??

Was it REALLY necessary to kill off Aunt Queen??? I don't think so and that perturbed me to no end

And after all that Merrick arranged and went through to cross over I just don't buy her suddenly going off into the light with Garwain. She wanted it too bad and engineered it! Don't buy it.
I know Rice said Blood Canticle was it andthe last one but does she have to kill off everyone to do it????

Also I quit feeling sympathy for Quinn when he ventured off in the night to the Island. He knew better....
post #4 of 21
5/14/04 at 9:55pm
Hey- I just recently read this. It was ok, but I also read the one about the devil- what's it called? Memnock the Devil or something/ I loved that one.
post #5 of 21
5/14/04 at 10:19pm
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Yep Memnoch

that was several books ago ...

Of course my fav so far is Blood and Gold because Marius is my absolute favourite..
post #6 of 21
5/15/04 at 1:09am
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Originally Posted by CerridwenLorelei
Lestat though without him the series doesn't exsist has NEVER been my favourite. Did she change her writing style?
Yes, she totally wrote him differently. It actually kinda pissed me off (I like Lestat for what he's worth). I didn't care for Lestat in this one, at first, but then, I tried to view him as someone who grew up and matured a little. I was able to tolerate him,then.

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Was it REALLY necessary to kill off Aunt Queen???
I guess she thought so. :LOL She was really old, after all, and I don't think Quinn would have progressed like he did if she had stayed alive.

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nd after all that Merrick arranged and went through to cross over I just don't buy her suddenly going off into the light with Garwain. She wanted it too bad and engineered it! Don't buy it.
Don't get me started on that! That pissed me off so much! I'm getting upset again just remembering reading it. That was so poorly written! (honestly, I think this was her most poorly written book, as far as having ppl act out of character. but it was still enthralling!)

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Also I quit feeling sympathy for Quinn when he ventured off in the night to the Island. He knew better....
I thought he was written in a very obvious way. Nothing that happened to him surprised me. (well, the twin situation surprised me a little, but only b/c I just couldn't figure out what his spirit's deal was)

I thought Quinn was a horrible main character. I found myself not caring about Quinn, but wanting to know more about the characters surrounding him. Did you feel that way?
post #7 of 21
5/15/04 at 1:27am
chaka, I agree with you on that, Quinn was boring.
post #8 of 21
5/15/04 at 2:51pm
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Yes yes !

I wanted to know more about Aunt Queen !
Manfred I had figured out very early into the book -I knew he was vamped and somewhere
Petronia makes me barf ( and nothing to do with the herm issue just her bloody attitude someone put her in the son already!)
I wanted to know if Stirling Knew Aaron
I wasn't expecting the twin angle but kept thinking there had to be more to Patsy's story

Which I hated the way they killed her off. Too trite. And Quinn talking like Goblin when he did it?? That was off kilter I thought...
post #9 of 21
5/16/04 at 3:28pm
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ok I read a few pages of Blood canticle in

the bookstore
Can't wait for the library to get it back in
but what I read ...

WTH is she thinking????? Lestat and Rowan in love ?? NO WAY ??!!!
post #10 of 21
5/17/04 at 9:23am
hmmm...I read the Blood Canticle. Now, I'll have to re-read it, b/c I have no idea what you're talking about! (Lestat and Rowan)

Sometimes, I thought Anne didn't really write BF. But, then, I heard her husband died around the time she wrote it and I attributed the weirdness to that.

I hope she doesn't go the route of Stephen King. I stopped reading him over 10 years ago b/c you could tell he wasn't writing his own stuff, anymore. He's supposedly writing it now, but it's too late for me to get back into him.
post #11 of 21
5/17/04 at 12:50pm
what? who was writing king's books then? where is this documented? i just thought he went to crap, but then he went to crap in much the same ways any of his early crappy books did, so it didn't raise my suspicians.

yeah, lestat & rowan. it doesn't click for me, but then i never cared much for rowan. i like maryjane mayfair, myself. now HER & lestat would be a kick, lol.

i like all these old ladies like merrick's (aunt? gma? i can't remember!) and aunt queen & oh god, who's the old biddy hanging out at rowan & michael's (my mind is tired & i read it all awhile ago, but didn't michael, oh crud, how do you hide your spoiler here? anyway, for those of you who've read both already, didn't you think it was out of character when he did that?!)

sloppy but enthralling, that's a good word for it. i'll keep reading them as long as she's churning them out, which is more than i can say for poor old stephen. he used to be such a favorite of mine.

suse
post #12 of 21
5/17/04 at 4:47pm
No documentation, but I could have sworn a few years back (when he started writing all these new series'), he admitted to having a ghost writer.

I could be wrong. I have kids. :LOL I can't seem to remember things like that well anymore.
post #13 of 21
5/17/04 at 6:23pm
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suseyblue

as soon as you get figured out how to do spoilers post them please
post #14 of 21
5/17/04 at 7:36pm
how to do a spoiler:
[ spoiler ] type info here [ / spoiler ]

without the blank spaces.
post #15 of 21
5/18/04 at 6:49pm
ahhhh. gracias. suse

Warning :: Spoiler Ahead! Highlight to read message!
michael! how could he just leave rowan to lestat! way out of character.
but then, my mind is kind of holey and vague these days myself. hope i remembered that right!
post #16 of 21
5/18/04 at 9:22pm
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Whoa

post #17 of 21
5/19/04 at 12:46am


Now I need to reread both books.
post #18 of 21
5/19/04 at 2:43pm
wow, it has been awhile since i read them too... did i forget and he changed his mind or something? i thought i recalled him being pretty wishy-washy... ah, maybe i need to get in a book discussion where i've read the book being discussed within the last year, lol. sorry if i was confused. (so many people did so many out-of-character things in those books i won't flog myself for losing track.)

suse
post #19 of 21
5/24/04 at 10:11pm
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ok I finished my ILL of DeBecker and began Blood Canticle

The first chapter STUNK!!!! I don't remember Lestat writing like that in Memnoch ...
I am not sure I can go on through chapter two!
post #20 of 21
5/31/04 at 2:13am
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OK Ladies

I finished BLood Canticle !!

I have decided that

Aunt Queen knew damn well that Quinn and Lestat were vamps
That she had her suspicions of Goblin
That killing her was unnecessary drat it!

That Lestat blew it with making Mona and should have let Quinn do it so Lestat would have Quinn

That the image I have had of Michael's good looks is still the same

and that despite saying she would never write another vamp or mayfair book that Anne left three potential threads should she change her mind
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